Paradygmat poznawczy etologicznej Szkoły Lorenza-Tinbergena

Abstract

The concept of the titular paradigm pertains to the works of Thomas Kuhn who, in the 1960s of the last century, referred it to all types of human cognition, especially to scientific cognition identified with natural science. Many historians point to the fact that Konrad Lorenz, who is recognized as the founder of modern ethology, gathered a group of biologists respecting a uniform research methodology. The cooperation of Konrad Lorenz with Nikolaas Tinbergen, which often led to creative disputes, had a number of fundamental effects for ethology, the most important of them concerning the ethological theory of instinct and the ethological theory of the laws ruling the functioning of stimuli. The cooperation between Lorenz and Tinbergen resulted in the fact that today we can talk about Lorenz-Tinbergen school of ethology which assigns this field of knowledge a permanent place among other types of human cognition, especially among different branches of evolutionary biology.